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As Sheriff Terry Maketa runs for a third term, his personnel decisions deserve a second look

By Pam Zubeck

A detective brandished a gun at lawmen and landed in jail but is still working for the sheriff. A budget analyst received a 49 percent pay raise within five months of being hired. One dispatcher posed nude multiple times, played a prank that resulted in an Internal Affairs reprimand — then got promoted, herself. All those things have happened on Maketa's watch.

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